datasette 1.0a30 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a30">datasette 1.0a30</a></p> <p>The b [...]
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datasette-agent 0.1a4 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/releases/tag/0.1a4">datasette-agent 0.1a4</a></p> [...]
datasette-fixtures 0.1a0 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-fixtures/releases/tag/0.1a0">datasette-fixtures 0.1a0</a></ [...]
Quoting Armin Ronacher 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi-oss/"><p>The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that ar [...]
Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games 🔗
<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/usborne-mad-house">Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games</a></p> [...]
On the <dl> 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/">On the <dl></a></strong></p> I learned a few new-to-me things about the <code>&l [...]
The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone">The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electroni [...]
FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/ftc-require-cox-media-group-two-other-firms-pay-nearly-1-million [...]
Datasette Agent 🔗
<p>We just <a href="https://datasette.io/blog/2026/datasette-agent/">announced the first release of Datasette Agent</a>, a new extensible AI assi [...]
datasette-agent-sprites 0.1a0 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent-sprites/releases/tag/0.1a0">datasette-agent-sprites 0 [...]
datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent-charts/releases/tag/0.1a2">datasette-agent-charts 0.1 [...]
datasette-agent 0.1a3 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/releases/tag/0.1a3">datasette-agent 0.1a3</a></p> [...]
Quoting SpaceX S-1 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm"><p>We have the ability to us [...]
How fast is 10 tokens per second really? 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/">How fast is 10 tokens per second really?</a></strong></p> Neat little HTML app by [...]
Google I/O, Gemini Spark, Antigravity 🔗
<p>It's hard to find much to write about Google I/O this year because I have a policy of not writing about anything that I can't try out myself, [...]
datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent-charts/releases/tag/0.1a1">datasette-agent-charts 0.1 [...]
llm-gemini 0.32 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/releases/tag/0.32">llm-gemini 0.32</a></p> <blockquot [...]
Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything 🔗
<p>Today at Google I/O, Google <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/">released Gemini 3.5 [...]
datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-llm-accountant/releases/tag/0.1a4">datasette-llm-accountant [...]
llm-gemini 0.32a0 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/releases/tag/0.32a0">llm-gemini 0.32a0</a></p> <block [...]
datasette-llm 0.1a8 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-llm/releases/tag/0.1a8">datasette-llm 0.1a8</a></p> [...]
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes 🔗
<p>I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/ [...]
Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose 🔗
<p><img src="https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/662161673/large.jpg" alt="Glaucous-winged Gull"></p><p><img src="https://static.inatu [...]
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/">GDS weighs in on the NHS&# [...]
Warelay -> OpenClaw 🔗
<p>In preparation for a lightning talk I'm giving at PyCon US <a href="https://us.pycon.org/2026/schedule/presentation/175/">this afternoon</a> I [...]
Quoting Julia Evans 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/"><p>[...] in the last 10 years I’ [...]
inaturalist-clumper 0.1 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/inaturalist-clumper/releases/tag/0.1">inaturalist-clumper 0.1</a></p> [...]
Western Gull, Rock Pigeon 🔗
<p><img src="https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/660343826/large.jpg" alt="Western Gull"></p><p><img src="https://static.inaturalist.o [...]
QR code generator 🔗
<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/qr-code-generator">QR code generator</a></p> <p>Claude helped [...]
datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-llm-limits/releases/tag/0.1a0">datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0</ [...]